Prevalence and Correlates of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Patients with Lung Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study in Beirut, Lebanon

Table 1

Sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics of study participants by CAM use ().

Characteristics	Overall	CAM users	CAM nonusers	value
Age (years)
55 years	30 (20)	18 (60)	12 (40)	0.02
>55 years	120 (80)	44 (37)	76 (63)
Gender
Male	106 (71)	44 (42)	62 (59)	0.54
Female	44 (29)	18 (41)	26 (59)
Nationality
Non-Lebanese	37 (25)	13 (35)	24 (65)	0.25
Lebanese	113 (75)	49 (43)	64 (57)
Marital status
Single	16 (11)	4 (25)	12 (75)	0.13
Married/live in	134 (89)	58 (43)	79 (59)
Educational level				0.22
High school level	89 (59)	34 (38)	55 (62)
University level	61 (41)	28 (46)	33 (54)
Employment status
Employed	52 (35)	27 (52)	25 (48)	0.05
Retired	47 (32)	19 (40)	28 (60)
Unemployed	49 (33)	16 (33)	33 (67)
Type of health insurance
Insured (public/private)	108 (72)	41 (38)	67 (62)	0.12
Self-paying	42 (28)	21 (34)	21 (24)
Monthly household income
<1000$	55 (41)	20 (36)	35 (64)	0.11
≥1000$	78 (59)	38 (49)	40 (51)
Disease-related characteristics
Duration of lung cancer
2-3 months	36 (24)	16 (44)	20 (56)	0.56
4–12 months	57 (38)	24 (42)	33 (58)
>1 year	57 (38)	22 (39)	35 (61)
Current status of lung cancer
Early/locally advanced	46 (48)	19 (41)	27 (59)	0.55
Metastatic	49 (52)	21 (43)	28 (57)
Family history of lung cancer
No	110 (76)	45 (41)	65 (59)	0.45
Yes	34 (24)	15 (2544)	19 (56)
Suffer from other diseases (hypertension or CVD or COPD)
No	80 (55)	42 (53)	38 (48)	0.01
Yes	66 (45)	18 (27)	48 (73)

in this table represent (%); values were derived from Chi-square tests; data (the totals of these variables do not add up to 150).